Sentences with phrase «struggling middle class»

«Liberals believe that government must not only create the right conditions for economic growth, but also ensure that growth is sustainable and will finally help struggling middle class families.»

«When he had to choose between helping struggling middle class families and businesses or working against them, George voted every time to benefit his own interests and his wealthy real estate friends in New York City.

«So adding so - called free tuition is just another tax that would make matters actually worse on our already struggling middle class.»

«Closing the budget gap, getting New Yorkers back to work, and giving struggling Middle Class New Yorkers the support they need to survive is the challenge we all face.

However, appeal court Justice Ian T. Donald rejected that argument based on the fact the indigency rule applies only to the poor, not to the «struggling middle class who, while not poor in the ordinary sense, can not afford the fees.»

I find it unlikely that a politician would champion a cause that would hurt so many constituents, because not only would it directly affect his or her ability to be reelected, it would also bring even more pain for the already struggling middle class.

Let's hope that «this thing» stays in place and is improved by bipartisan members of Congress who truly wish to help the poor and struggling middle class (of which almost 99 % of Americans are a part of).

Kinderhook, N.Y. November 1, 2016... With open enrollment for Obamacare beginning today, voters should know that its rates are skyrocketing for New York's struggling middle class: They'll go up another 16.6 percent on average in New York and upwards of 25 percent elsewhere, yet liberal New York City professor and NY - 19 congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout wants to expand the failing program even more, the campaign of fiscally responsible congressional candidate John Faso today noted.

«She comes of middle class background herself, and has true respect and compassion for the struggling middle class, and the struggling working class and the struggling not - working class today.

They said they would help their districts, they said they would help the struggling middle class.

«They said they would help their districts; they said they would help the struggling middle class,» Mr. Cuomo said.

«My priority and I think really the position of our members is let's make sure we're taking care of the hard - working members of the struggling middle class.»

Now most of those struggling middle class owners are going to struggle even more to put food on the table for a hungry family, pay an urgent bill to a utility so that family has electric so teenagers who live at home with mom and dad can get more money to go to the movies or buy weed with.

The glitzy Hamptons backdrop — which Democrats like former President Bill Clinton mined with great success — is being used this time around as ammunition for the Democratic attack that Romney is a 1 % - er, who can't relate to the struggling middle class.

«Today [Governor Cuomo] made a very strong case for a vision for New York State and New York City,» Stringer said after the speech, «that I believe goes a long way to helping the struggling middle class, the poorest people among us.»

They said they would help the struggling middle class, They did the exact opposite.

His speech will also talk about the economy, raising concerns about the deficit, high unemployment and a struggling middle class.

It's a wonderful story focusing on the struggle a middle class family endures whilst traveling across states to get to a child beauty pageant.

An example: According to King, those guys «float serenely over the lives of the struggling middle class like blimps made of thousand - dollar bills.»

Apparently, the Austin, Texas - based chain, which operates more than 365 stores, has done such a good job of luring affluent shoppers into its locations, it now must look to a shrinking and struggling middle class for new business — an effort that has been largely unsuccessful thus far.

The president is right to focus on revitalizing the struggling middle class and restoring robust economic growth, which will leave him in a stronger political position to pursue other priorities.

Pretty much every economist says this Bill is coming at the worst time imaginable and that now is not the time to cut taxes for the wealthy and raise taxes for an already struggling middle class.

The economic downturn / Great Recession has led to greater demand for rental properties, which persists today in the face of stagnant wages and a struggling middle class.

Mortgage lenders dodged the proposed rule by joining homebuilders and advocates of low - income homeownership to convince hundreds of lawmakers that defining supersafe mortgages as those with significant down payments would curtail mortgage lending to the struggling middle class and poor.